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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc de la Torre-Luque, Alejandro author Fiol-Veny, Aina author Balle, Maria author Bornas, Xavier author 2016-09 Background/Objective: Anxiety symptoms in adolescence have been found to be associated with heart rate variability (HRV) linear features, but more basic properties of the cardiac system remain unexplored. This study focused on the fractal nature of 90 minute-long interbeat fluctuations from 24 adolescents with high anxiety and 26 with low anxiety to (a) evaluate if allometric scaling exponents and linear HRV measures allow for distinction between Ex post facto study groups, and (b) assess the associations between these measures and sensitivity to punishment (SP), a temperamental characteristic strongly correlated with anxiety. Method: Cardiac functioning was recorded and allometric exponents and vagally mediated HRV as indexed by the high frequency (HF) band power were calculated. Results: While the exponents from the high anxiety group were significantly higher than those from low anxiety participants (p<.05), just marginal differences were found for the HF measure (p=.057). Furthermore, exponents were positively correlated with SP scores and several anxiety scale scores, but no more correlations were found. Conclusions: These results show that beyond parasympathetic functioning, basic properties of the cardiac system may be altered in young, anxious adolescents. These properties, therefore, can provide useful information for assessing adolescents at risk of anxiety disorders. De La Torre-Luque A, Fiol Veny AM, Balle M, Bornas X. Heartbeat scaling in early adolescents: Its association with anxiety symptoms and sensitivity to punishment. Int J Clin Health Psychol. 2016 Sep;16(3):287-94. Epub 2016 May 20. 10.1016/j.ijchp.2016.04.002 1576-7329 1697-2600 International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13003/11019 30487872 2-s2.0-84969545623 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/20230 383933000008 Anxiety Adolescence Allometric control Fractality Ex post facto study Heartbeat scaling in early adolescents: Its association with anxiety symptoms and sensitivity to punishment